wave-path that I could find there, in houses standing on level ground, and without any steep scarps near them, I found them to agree pretty well with the first. There were in many quarters, obscure indications of a sub-ordinate shock, from about 25° W. of north to south, which direction, points almost exactly, towards Monte Vulture. This rendered it highly probable that a reflected wave from that mountain mass, had been transmitted through Rionero, and added to the complication of its phenomena, the path of this reflected wave being nearly orthogonal to that of the primary shock.
At the Locanda of Rionero, I fell into company with the Canonico Il Padre Felice Campanelli, of Spinazzola, a priest of a good deal of knowledge and intelligence, and received from him some valuable information as to the effects of the shock far away to the east, and upon the Adriatic coast, with all which country he was familiar, and had travelled over it since December.[1]
At Spinazzola, his own town, (Photog. No.323, Coll. Roy. Soc.,) which lies upon an undulating plain of the Murgie, with rolling hills to the east and south of it, a good deal of mischief was done. He was there, and felt the shock severely. The direction of the great movement was, he
- ↑ Since these pages were written, I am informed, that this gentleman fell into the remorseless grip of the late tyrannical government, and was one of the last of its incarcerated victims, his ostensible crime being his having expostulated as to the savage treatment of an over-driven line of fainting and roped-together prisoners. But he was a marked man even when we met; a brother had fled from "being suspected." Don Felice hoped he was in England, but had heard nothing of him for some years, and dared not write even to any third party to make inquiries.
